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Heikki Kovalainen

KOV🇫🇮 Finnish2007–2013

Won 1 of 112 starts across 7 seasons.

Titles
0
Best: 7th
Wins
1
0.9% of starts
Podiums
4
3.6% of starts
Career points
105
as scored at the time
Starts
112
7 seasons, 5 teams

2 fastest laps (recorded 1958–59 and 2004 on).

Championship finish by season

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P1P5P10P15P207'077'0812'0920'1022'1122'1222'13
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Against Kovalainen's teammates

Points in races together
Jarno Trulli 0 – 0 2010–11 · 37 races · ahead on the results sheet 25–12
Lewis Hamilton 75 – 147 2008–09 · 35 races · ahead on the results sheet 12–23
Vitaly Petrov 0 – 0 2012 · 20 races · ahead on the results sheet 10–10
Giancarlo Fisichella 30 – 21 2007 · 17 races · ahead on the results sheet 12–5
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Romain Grosjean 0 – 18 2013 · 2 races · ahead on the results sheet 1–1
Karun Chandhok 0 – 0 2011 · 1 races · ahead on the results sheet 1–0

Best circuits

By wins
1 Hungaroring 6 starts · avg finish 11 Won 2008 0 Fuji Speedway Best 2nd · 2 starts · avg finish 9.5 0 Autodromo Nazionale di Monza Best 2nd · 6 starts · avg finish 10 0 Sepang International Circuit Best 3rd · 6 starts · avg finish 13.7 0 Indianapolis Motor Speedway Best 5th · 1 start · avg finish 5

Milestones

Debut
2007 Australian GP Renault
First points
2007 Malaysian GP 8th
First podium
2007 Japanese GP 2nd
First win
2008 Hungarian GP 28th career start
Final start
2013 Brazilian GP Lotus F1

Under today's points system

25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1, scored by the calculator
105 283 +178

Career points re-scored with today's table. 2008: 53 → 136. Replay 2008 in the calculator →

All seasons

Points as counted for the championship
Year Team Pos Pts Wins Podiums Teammate
2013 Lotus F1 22 0 0 0 Romain Grosjean
2012 Caterham 22 0 0 0 Vitaly Petrov
2011 Lotus 22 0 0 0 Jarno Trulli, Karun Chandhok
2010 Lotus 20 0 0 0 Jarno Trulli
2009 McLaren 12 22 0 0 Lewis Hamilton
2008 McLaren 7 53 1 3 Lewis Hamilton
2007 Renault 7 30 0 1 Giancarlo Fisichella

Starts count Grands Prix with a classified result, sprints excluded. Figures cover the World Championship from 1958.